McDonald’s restaurants use prefabrication technology to build their new outlets, and they recently set their record of a completed outlet being built and open for business within 13 hours of starting construction on prepared ground works. This has considerable commercial implications for businesses and a range of prospective clients, which could be hotels and retail outlets who are using some form of modular building.

Nearly all McDonald’s restaurants are prefabricated modules, which are subsequently finished on site. The brief Mc Donalds set themselves is for the prefabricated elements to be erected and restaurant opened within three weeks of the prefabricated modules delivery date.

Currently, the corporation uses modular buildings for all their restaurants to save a lot of cost as well as produce a wider space for all its customers. This translates into a thirty percent direct cost saving, a fifty percent reduction in installation time and has eliminated the consequential burden to other trades previously experienced.

McDonald’s has trimmed its new unit construction costs by 30 percent, to $1.1 million for the past decade. A project using modular building components promises to cut more costs and to speed up construction by half.

McDonald’s is one of the world’s leading fast food chains of hamburger restaurants, serving nearly 47 million customers daily worldwide. The corporation’s revenues come from the rent, royalties and fees paid by the franchisees, as well as sales in company-operated restaurants. McDonald’s revenues grew 27% over the three years ending in 2009 to $23.5 billion, and 7% growth in operating income to $6 billion.

This largest fast food chain primarily sells hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chicken products, french fries, breakfast items, soft drinks, milkshakes, and desserts. In response to obesity trends in Western nations and in the face of criticism over the healthiness of its products, the company has modified its menu to include healthier alternatives such as salads, wraps and fruit.